Major Cruise Lines Held Liable for More Than $400 Million in Damages for Cuba Sailings
Photo Credit: Vintage cars pass the Carnival Paradise while the cruise ship is docked in Havana, Cuba. A U.S. federal judge ordered damages against four cruise lines that did business in Cuba. Carnival Cruise Line / Andy Newman
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This lawsuit against major cruise lines, if upheld after inevitable appeals, could open up a floodgate of litigation against airlines and cruise lines that operated in Cuba after the Obama administration cleared the way.
The Obama administration approved U.S. educational and people-to-people travel to Cuba in 2015, but a U.S. federal judge in Florida last week ordered four major cruise lines to pay more than $400 million in damages plus legal fees to a U.S. company that ran the port in Havana until it was confiscated after the Cuban revolution of 1959.
U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom in the Southern District of Florida ordered Carnival, MSC, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian to pay representatives of the American company, Havana Docks, more than $400 million in damages plus legal fees, according to a Miami Herald story
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